PUBLIC MARKS with tags my-install-notes & rpms

February 2006

a package manager, primarily used by Debian based distributions, which makes installation and removal packages very easy. It automates the process of downloading and installation of required packages along with their dependency requirements.

utility to automatically build RPM/Debian or Slackware packages from tar.gz source pages. This makes it possible to do a "clean" installation and de-installation of almost any source code tar.gz package.

an easy way to install software, even while running as non-root user or from a Live-CD. Because one software package is always exactly just one compressed cmg file, you can always delete software packages without any problems for other software. Because y

November 2005

to work with the Linux community to provide security and critical bug fix errata packages for select End of Life Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core distributions. This will allow for a longer effective life for those releases.

a GTK-based web browser written completely in C, designed to be small and fast. The RPM is only 220-250 KB, even with various patches applied to add functionality and to make it play nice with KDE and Gnome menus. At present I have packages for several ve